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I restored this thread but Godfrey posted this in a thread started by Joshua on "The Sculpted Word"

Thank you Onenski!

It would be good for you to read Bernard Frischer's book and look at his examples of the artwork and his theories about how they were used. Your reaction to "hero worship" is very common, but ultimately I think that the concern is unjustified. Epicurean philosophy teaches you to question authority and demand answers based on evidence, and it doesn't lead in the direction of general cultism for anyone who thinks about it. The issue of how to deal with younger and less "educated" people may be dif…

Onenski I looked for a specific thread on the cultishness question and could not find one. Maybe this on is closest: DeWitt's "Organization And Procedure In Epicurean Groups" I see I did a graphic long ago: epicureanfriends.com/wcf/galle…urean-philosophy-cultish/ It would be fine if you would like to start another one directly on point. It would probably be worthwhile to do so because this is another area where the criticism is easy to make and is superficially persuasive, but which I think ther…